United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2001-05-25 monographic deposited born digital 68 p. GA 1.13:GAO-01-625 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-625 P0b002ee1803726eb f:d01625 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-625 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-625 GAO-01-625 Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome Foreign aid programs Health care programs International cooperation International organizations Sexually transmitted diseases Abidjan (Ivory Coast) Africa AIDS Botswana Canada Ethiopia Ghana South Africa Tanzania Thailand Uganda UN Children's Fund UN Development Program UN International Drug Control Program UN Joint Program on HIV/AIDS UN Population Fund Other Written Product A00967 Despite efforts by the international community to reduce the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus, AIDS is now the fourth leading cause of death in the world and the primary cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), funded in part by the United States, is one important international effort against the disease. UNAIDS was established by the United Nations (U.N.) in 1996 to provide coordinated U.N. action and to lead and promote an expanded global response to the worldwide epidemic. This report (1) assesses UNAIDS' progress, especially at the country level, toward increasing the coordination and commitment of the U.N. and global community; (2) assesses UNAIDS' progress in providing technical assistance and information and in developing a monitoring and evaluation plan to measure results; and (3) identifies factors that may have affected UNAIDS' progress. GAO found that UNAIDS has made progress in increasing U.N. coordination and enhancing the global response to the worldwide HIV/AIDS epidemic, but its country-level efforts need to be strengthened. UNAIDS has provided financial and technical support to about 50 HIV/AIDS technical networks worldwide, but has not been as successful in tracking the funding and actions host governments and others have taken to address the AIDS problem. UNAIDS has also been unable to follow its intended model of U.N. reform, whereby a single Secretariat together with several U.N. agencies would marshal the U.N. and global community's resources to address the AIDS epidemic. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-625/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-625.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-625/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-625.pdf GAO-01-625 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-625 Other Written Product GAO-01-625; Global Health: Joint U.N. Programme on HIV/AIDS Needs to Strengthen Country-Level Efforts and Measure Results; Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome Foreign aid programs Health care programs International cooperation International organizations Sexually transmitted diseases Abidjan (Ivory Coast) Africa AIDS Botswana Canada Ethiopia Ghana South Africa Tanzania Thailand Uganda UN Children's Fund UN Development Program UN International Drug Control Program UN Joint Program on HIV/AIDS UN Population Fund Public Law 103-62